Emergency Response Planning

Our Emergency Response Planning Philosophy: The most critical aspects of an effective emergency response planning strategy are pre-planning and training.

Emergency Response Planning
Phast provides a wide range of tools and models to help you plan what to do in the event of an emergency. Key to Emergency Response Planning is understanding your hazards and what the likely consequence will be if these are realised. In most emergency situations pre-planning is essential. Knowing what can happen and training your personnel in what to do if it does happen are the main focus of an emergency response plan. The comprehensive consequence modelling capabilities of Phast allow you to investigate a wide range of “what-if” scenarios.

• What happeneds if I have a leak from this storage vessel?
• Is the release toxic?
• How far does the toxic cloud spread and in which direction?
• How long do I have to evacuate on-site personnel and members of the public?
• Could I get a pool fire or jet fire?
• If I do, what are the levels of radiation I can expect?
• What about explosions? Is there a possibility of escalation?
  

These are some of the many questions you may need to answer, and Phast can help you answer all of these and more. The better you prepare, the better you will be able to respond if an accident occurs. By using Phast to build a comprehensive and accurate Emergency Response Plan you will put yourself in the best possible position to make the right decisions at the right time.

Phast is ideally suited to Emergency Response Planning with custom weather categories, scenarios, and site-specific maps. Whether your interest is managing the emergency preparedness training and response of a fixed oil/chemical facility, or for a remote or transportation source facility, Phast can be applied in many different ways to help you manage the most important aspects of Emergency Response Planning - preparedness and training.

How Phast can be applied to Emergency Response Planning
The key to an effective emergency response planning strategy is pre-planning and training. With the release of Phast 6.x, emergency planning, training, and response have never been easier. Not only do we understand the traditional risk analysis applications for Phast, but our real world emergency response experience can help you customize your existing Phast license or acquire a new Phast licence to manage your emergency requirements. And with the new concurrent licensing, you can monitor incidents at the scene or remotely. Let us show you how we can help you customize your Phast to be an excellent response tool.

• Phast's interface is now ideally suited to fixed facilities with the following features:
• You can go from your desktop to sample graphs with no need for input. Two or three clicks is all you need from start to output.
• Enhanced mapping capability.
• Dynamic plume overlaid on map.
• Multiple weather/plume plotting options displayed simultaneously on one map to quickly and easily bound the range of likely consequences. Includes time to key concentration.
  1. See example of concentration with effect zones overlaid on a map.
  2. See example using wind direction bar overlaid on a map.
• Fast calculation time.
• What-if scenarios at the touch of a button so you can respond to changing conditions.
• Simple wind direction input.

How can we help current Phast users?

• We are available to customize your existing licence to manage your emergency training and preparation.
• We provide custom training to show you how you can prepare Emergency Response Planning templates yourself.
• Our technical support pages contain the instructions for preparing Emergency Response Planning templates.